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River Song was imprisoned in the Stormcage Containment Facility for murder.
 [1413]
The Daleks had records of River Song, and knew that she was not merciful.
 [1414]
River dated a Nestene duplicate with a swappable head.
 [1415]
She learned how to fly the TARDIS.
 [1416]

5145 - The Pandorica Opens
 [1417]

The TARDIS forwarded a call from Winston Churchill to River Song in Stormcage. He told her about the Vincent van Gogh painting
The Pandorica Opens
, and so she escaped and stole it from the Royal Collection aboard Starship UK. Liz X stopped River, but let her go when she understood that the Doctor was involved. River then travelled to a bar, the Maldovarium, and acquired a vortex manipulator “fresh from the wrist of a handsome Time Agent” from the bar owner, Dorium Maldovar. She used this to travel first to Planet One, then - based upon the date and map reference that Vincent included in the painting - Rome in 120 AD.

River returned to Stormcage after going to 2010 to spur Amy’s memory of the Doctor, which restored him to life after he had sealed the Cracks in Time.
 [1418]

The Silence learned that Amy Pond was pregnant, and determined that if she and Rory Williams conceived the child while travelling in the TARDIS, the child might have some Time Lord attributes - meaning it could be turned into a weapon. The pregnant Amy was kidnapped from another time zone, replaced with a Ganger duplicate and taken to an asteroid fortress: Demon’s Run. While Madame Kovarian kept watch over Amy’s gestation, Amy’s mind interacted with her Ganger duplicate - and remained unaware that she had been abducted.
 [1419]

The Rebel Flesh / A Good Man Goes to War
 [1420]

The eleventh Doctor severed the connection between Amy and her Ganger. Amy awoke at Demon’s Run and gave birth to a daughter, whom she named “Melody” after her best friend Mels.
 [1421]

“Demons run when a good man goes to war; Night will fall and drown the sun; When a good man goes to war; Friendship dies and true love lies; Night will fall and the dark will rise; When a good man goes to war; Demons run, but count the cost; The battle’s won, but the child is lost; When a good man goes to war.”

The eleventh Doctor and Rory narrowed down Amy’s location, and visited the Twelfth Cyber Legion because it monitored that quadrant of the galaxy. The Doctor destroyed part of the fleet, and the Cybermen revealled the location of Demon’s Run. To help save Amy, the Doctor and Rory recruited people who owed the Doctor a debt: Madame Vastra and Jenny, Commander Strax, the World War II pilot Danny Boy, the information broker Dorium Maldovar, pirate Captain Avery and Toby, as well as squads of Judoon and Silurians.

The Doctor provoked such in-fighting among his opponents that he swiftly took control of Demon’s Run and routed the Clerics. He and Rory rescued Amy and met the newborn Melody. The Headless Monks eluded detection and counter-attacked, decapitating Dorium and killing Strax and the Cleric named Lorna Bucket - who had come to warn the Doctor of the danger. Kovarian escaped with the infant Melody.

River Song appeared in the battle’s aftermath, and revealled to the Doctor, Amy and Rory that she was the adult Melody Pond. In the language of the people of the Gamma Forests - which had no ponds - “Melody Pond” translated as “River Song”. The Doctor departed with new confidence that he could defeat Kovarian, leaving River to return his allies home.

The Silence took Melody to Earth, the 1960s, so she could be raised in a human-norm environment.
 [1422]

The Wedding of River Song
 [1423]

The eleventh Doctor investigated the Silence, and found the Seventh Transept, where the Headless Monks were keeping the still-living head of Dorium Maldovar. He also tracked down a former envoy of the Silence, Father Gideon Vandaleur... who had died six months before, and was actually the justice-agent spaceship
Teselecta
in disguise. The Doctor believed that he could no longer avoid travelling to 2011 to die at Lake Silencio, and asked the justice agents to deliver messages so Amy, Rory, River Song, an older Canton Delaware and a younger version of the eleventh Doctor could meet him there.

He also asked the justice agents if they would disguise the
Teselecta
to resemble him - a means of his avoiding death and thwarting the fixed point in time at Lake Silencio.

The Doctor succeeded, lived... and married River Song. He later returned Dorium’s head to the transept, and Dorium pledged to keep the secret that the Doctor had cheated death.

A Good Man Goes to War
 [1424]

River voluntarily returned to Stormcage after the Doctor took her ice skating on the river Thames, 1814, for her birthday. Rory approached River to help find him and the Doctor rescue Amy, but she refused, knowing that these events would lead to the Battle of Demon’s Run, and that she could only appear at the “very end”.

River Song and the Doctor met Jim the Fish. They also visited Easter Island.
 [1425]

The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon
 [1426]

The Doctor sent River an invite to join him at Lake Silencio in Utah, the twenty-first century. She escaped Stormcage, and went there. The Doctor later brought her back to Stormcage and they kissed... it was the first time they had done so for the Doctor, meaning it was the last time for River.

The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone / The Big Bang
 [1427]

There were laws against marrying one’s self.

The Weeping Angel found on Razbahan caused the category-four starliner
Byzantium
to crash on Alfava Metraxis - all part of an attempt to rescue the Angels sleeping in a maze of the dead there. The Clerics released River Song from Stormcage into the custody of Father Octavian, and offered her a pardon if she helped contain the situation. She carved a message into the
Byzantium
’s flight recorder, its Home Box, that summoned the eleventh Doctor and Amy to this time. The Angels fed off the
Byzantium
’s power, and gained enough strength to stalk the Doctor’s party.

The eleventh Doctor’s future self momentarily visited the
Byzantium
while he was backtracking along his own timeline. He stressed to Amy the importance that she remember the words he spoke to her when she was seven.

A Crack in Time appeared, and the “current” Doctor fed the Angels into it - they constituted enough of a space-time event that the Crack was sealed as it destroyed them. The Doctor learned that River was imprisoned for killing “a very good man”, and that he would see her again when the Pandorica opened.

River Song was granted her pardon.
 [1428]
She travelled to 2011 to tell Amy and Rory that the Doctor didn’t die at Lake Silencio.
 [1429]
River Song became a professor.
 [1430]
She had pictures of all the Doctor’s incarnations, but didn’t know their order.
 [1431]

The Doctor told River Song his real name; “there was only one time he could” do that.
 [1432]

The Doctor and River went to the end of the universe together. Their adventures included the Bone Meadows and a picnic at Asgard. When the Doctor knew that the time had come for River to visit the Library and meet her fate, he showed up on her doorstep with a new haircut and a suit. He took her to Darillium, where the towers sang - the Doctor cried, but didn’t tell River why. He gave her an advanced sonic screwdriver equipped with a neural relay.
 [1433]

Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead
 [1434]

Professor River Song joined an expedition sent by Felman Lux Corporation to their planet-sized Library, which had been sealed off for a hundred years, and sent a message that the Doctor should join her there. The message was received much too early in the Doctor’s timeline, and so the tenth Doctor arrived at the Library with Donna. He had not yet met River in his personal timestream.

The Vashta Nerada swarmed once more, and the Library’s self-destruct was activated. The Doctor and the Vashta Nerada agreed that they could have the Library if the Doctor was given one day to free the four thousand and twenty-two people saved on the Library’s hard drive. The Doctor intended to hook himself up the Library’s computer so his own memory space could be used to initiate the transfer - an act that would burn out his hearts, and kill him beyond all hope of regeneration. River incapacitated the Doctor and took his place. When he awoke, bound to the wall, she told him:

“It’s not over for you. You’ll see me again. You’ve got all of that to come. You and me, time and space. You watch us run.”

River’s body died as the patrons were restored to life and the Library’s self-destruct was terminated. The Doctor realised that River’s sonic screwdriver had a neural relay that contained the last vestiges of her mind, and transferred it into the Library’s hard drive. River’s mind took up residence in the hard drive’s simulation of reality, along with the minds of her slain archaeology team and Charlotte Abigail Lux. The Doctor and Donna continued their travels.

The principles of atmospheric flotation were discovered.
 [1435]

c 5200 - “Fire and Brimstone”
 [1436]

Ninety-seven “audited precessions” after the Breakout, the eighth Doctor and Izzy landed on the satelloid Icarus Falling - one of six satellites revolving around the artificial sun Crivello’s Cauldron. This was the New Earth system in the Crab Nebula, and held some of the remnants of humanity.

A Dalek fleet soon arrived and released self-replicating robot insects - the Contagium - to secure Icarus Falling. The Daleks sought to wipe out a race of spider-Daleks from a parallel dimension, and wanted to collapse the Cauldron and create a black hole - the means by which they could travel to the home territory of their rivals. The Daleks installed a synaptic conduit into the Doctor’s brain, believing he could navigate their fleet through the black hole.

Sister Chastity, a religious official aboard Icarus Falling, revealled herself as a member of Threshold and rescued the Doctor. She claimed that Threshold had changed in the thousands of years since the Doctor last encountered them, and intended - with the Doctor’s help - to crush the Dalek fleet as they passed through the black hole that the Cauldron would become. The Daleks took control of the Cauldron anyway, but spider-Daleks poured through the gateway and engaged Phalanx 44 of Special Weapons Daleks in battle. The Doctor learned that the Threshold had been hired by the Time Lords, and engineered a supernova that destroyed both Dalek armies. The Cauldron became an ordinary sun with planets orbiting it.

c 5220 - “Wormwood”
 [1437]

The newly-regenerated ninth Doctor (who was balding, wore a bowtie and carried a toothbrush in his jacket pocket), Izzy and Fey landed in Wormwood, a mock Western village controlled by Threshold on the moon. Their leader, Abraham White, showed the Doctor a host of landmarks from Earth such as the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore and so forth, which he had saved to celebrate mankind’s achievements. Fey confronted White after learning they’d been spying on her for years, but White summoned a demonic beast, the Pariah.

Izzy discovered that the Threshold were building the Eye of Disharmony, a device that made space impassable. Activated, the Eye annihilated the Traxonnia Research Cluster, the Kapli Refugee Fleet, the Ninth Sontaran Armada and every other vessel in space. The Threshold sent a transwarp signal to every civilisation offering to sell their teleport windows as an alternative.

The eighth Doctor showed up, and revealled that the “ninth Doctor” was actually Shayde in disguise. The Pariah, in turn, revealled that she was the original Shayde - who had rebelled against Rassilon. She defeated Shayde in battle, then killed all the members of Threshold to drain their energy. Fey merged with the wounded Shayde, gaining his powers, and they launched a second attack that destroyed Pariah. White also died.

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